Alright, so I have been working on a carve for a while. I thought I double and triple checked everything before starting, but somehow it still failed. The hole size was too small for the pegs, so I changed to a different bit and tried to rerun the path. FAIL. I know mistakes were made, and I am not looking to discuss what I did wrong just yet. Instead, I am looking for ideas at how I can save or recover from this failed drilling operation.
Do I fill the holes, and attempt to recut the holes?
Or do I cut out around the dish and try inlay it into another piece of walnut, cherry, or some other species of wood?
What other ideas do you guys have?
r f
personally it looks like a small carve I would restart the whole thing because I think after you try and recover that one you will have massive amounts of time in it
if you need to recover that one then I would spend so time finding the exact center of that oval and then cut a pocket around the outside of the 3d carving and either inlay the same material or different material for contrast and them redo your holes
Yeah I noticed the bottom was a little too close to the dish. The 3D preview in the project file shows the holes to be spaced perfectly all the way around. Something went wrong when I started that path from the get go. I think the larger hole is actually the correct offset from the dish.
Yeah it was only like 3hrs. Honestly, Its more that I don’t want to waste the material. This project is just for fun, so time isn’t really an issue.
oh yeah it would be good practice on saving the work
in that case I would inlay that piece of material
like I said really the only way I know to recover it is find the center of the oval
Well I just say locate the center of the oval and then reset xy zero there because the small holes that where drilled look to be off and starting to get uneven so I am thinking maybe he skipped steps but who knows it could be in the file that way
Looks like you already have a great idea right here.
r f